February 22, 1935
93 minutes
ComedyCrime
The Whole Town's Talking
Ordinary man-in-the-street Arthur Ferguson Jones leads a very straightforward life. He's never late for work and nothing interesting ever happens to him. One day everything changes: he oversleeps and is fired as an example, he's then mistaken for evil criminal killer Mannion and is arrested. The resemblance is so striking that the police give him a special pass to avoid a similar mistake. The real Mannion sees the opportunity to steal the pass and move around freely and chaos results.
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Cast
Edward G. Robinson
(Arthur Ferguson 'Jonesy' Jones / 'Killer' Mannion)
Jean Arthur
(Wilhelmina 'Bill' Clark)
Arthur Hohl
(Det. Sgt. Michael F. Boyle)
James Donlan
(Detective Sergeant Patrick J. Howe)
Arthur Byron
(Spencer)
Wallace Ford
(Healy)
Donald Meek
(Hoyt)
Etienne Girardot
(Seaver)
Edward Brophy
('Slugs' Martin)
Paul Harvey
('J.G.' Carpenter)
J. Farrell MacDonald
(Prison Warden (uncredited))
Ralph Remley
(Sam Dixon)
Joe Sawyer
(Mannion's Thug (uncredited))
Lucille Ball
(Bank Employee (uncredited))
Bess Flowers
(Miss Gower (uncredited))
Robert Stanley
(Reporter (uncredited))
